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...races. The first things I saw were the most gorgeous satin jockey coats in the most wonderful colors you've ever seen. I adopted them. Then I went to the pawn shops. I got some of the most marvelous heavy, cable-knit sweaters there, and even some underwear. When I got back to New York, I remembered the beautiful blue, blue Irish sky and the fresh green grass, so I combined the colors in my fashions...
...nights from 10 o'clock until 4 in the morning. During these periods I was always stripped naked and brutally beaten. [One stretch in solitary confinement] lasted for eight days, during which time they gave me neither food nor water ... On another occasion, I was stripped to my underwear and locked for 20 hours in a room half filled with...
...Underwear. Jammed into quarters that were ludicrously small, with suitcases for desks, the specialists tried to get some order into a parley that had no agenda. Atomic Expert Strauss disappeared almost immediately with Sir Winston's friend and atomic adviser, Lord Cherwell. They went off "to buy some underwear," said an official with a smile...
Malenkov left his lieutenants to spell out the damage in detail. In an orgy of breast beating, they reported: ¶ Stockings, underwear, hats and footwear-"completely inadequate." ¶ Textiles of all sorts-"insufficient . . . badly dyed, with flaws." ¶Furniture-"unsatisfactory." ¶ Women's dresses-"poor." ¶Bed linen-"production is lower than...
...that point, the picture has at least the charm of a kind of exotic silliness-rather like finding the underwear section of the Sears Roebuck catalogue floating gravely along the upper Orinoco...